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Taxing Times

The economic history of the Jews in Palestine in late antiquity

Ketubot 53

"My very entrance forces him."

Summer Lovin’ – Mollie & Jon

MOLLIE & JON BECKER When/how/where at camp did you meet? We knew each other since we were Oles, the youngest ...

Talk & Gossip 101

Speech is a defining characteristic of human beings, part of our self-definition as individuals and members of groups. Judaism sees speech as both a fundamental theological and ethical category.

Jewish Magic & Medieval Anti-Semitism

In medieval Europe, Jews suffered on account of popular beliefs about Jewish sorcery--and yet their non-Jewish neighbors also tried to benefit from Jewish magic.

Focusing on the “Philo” in Philo-Semitism

Last week, Kveller, a partner site of MyJewishLearning, published a provocative piece about one woman’s experience being Jewish in the ...

The Pittsburgh Platform, 1885

Principles of Reform Judaism: A primary historical document.

Hitting a Creative Wall

I didn’t mind the mechitza  at first. The wall—more frequently a short partition—separating men and women in ritual spaces was ...

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